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Letter "A" » America and Americans
«A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won't cross the street to vote in a national election»
«As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.»
Author: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
(Ambassador, Senator)
| About:
America and Americans
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convenient, our critics, relentlessly, tour
«A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.»
Author: Le Corbusier
(Architect)
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America and Americans
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a hundred times, catastrophe, The New York Times
«As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety.»
Author: Marshall Fishwick
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America and Americans
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American culture, manifestation, The Age of Anxiety, The Twist, twist
«Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed»
Author: Phyllis Diller
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
bank, cab, cabs, get into, robbed, robbing a bank, The New Yorker
«A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi...has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.»
Author: Tiger Woods
(Golfer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Equality,
Goals
| Keywords:
black person, in the United States, Mississippi, wealthiest
«A nobleman is Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
high life, nobleman
«A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
enslave, expedient, Expedients, or else, system of government, The Machine
«An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
asylum, asylums, In America, sane
«As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Community,
Government,
Liberty,
Mankind
| Keywords:
Among the, apt, civil, community, entitled, equally, foremost, liberal, liberality, members, protections
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